Learning is a living thing

Not a new thought at all but return to it today having explored some thoughts of others.
Found a paper by William E Doll Jr,  Complexity and the Culture of Curriculum  in the online journal complicity
Have thought for some time that complexity thinking would assist in making sense of learning but have struggled to find the direct links .  In this paper Doll looks at the work of Stuart Kauffman who was looking that led to self organisation in living systems

I interpret the single connection in terms of direct instruction from teacher to student as producing ‘mindlessly dull behavior’.38 From toomuch richness in curriculum, a chaotic frame emerges. What one needs, from Kauffman’s point of view and mine, are networks (or curricular structures) that ‘achieve both stability and flexibility' a brief quote from pg 24

Once one moves from data collection to relationships, onealso moves from isolated facts (with all their ‘inertness’) to interconnected or webbed patterns (with their ongoing ‘aliveness’) from page 25

So let this all reverberate for a bit but love the finding and refinding of resonating ideas